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Comparative in sentence

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You have someone from Google talking to someone who does comparative literature.
Now I was a comparative literature major in college, which is like an English major, only instead of being stuck studying Chaucer for three months, we got to read great literature in translation from around the world.
That is, I'm not a clinician, I'm a comparative biologist who studies anatomy.
Or should we use something else? Do we have the comparative advantage to use another sort of energy?
Encountering a new culture also started my habit of comparative reading.
Comparative reading actually is nothing new.
There are even research fields such as comparative religion and comparative literature.
So I thought, well, if comparative reading works for research, why not do it in daily life too?
Conversely, valuable attributes that increase with age include experience, understanding of people and human relationships, ability to help other people without your own ego getting in the way, and interdisciplinary thinking about large databases, such as economics and comparative history, best left to scholars over the age of 60.
Take any comparative question not involving value, such as which of two suitcases is heavier.
There's a good moral in this data: your brain, and by extension you, might care more about the very negative, immoral things another person has done compared to the very positive, moral things, but it's a direct result of the comparative rarity of those bad behaviors.
But comparative linguistics can help us by focusing on grammatical structure, patterns of sound changes, and certain core vocabulary.
And I teach comparative literature at Queens College.
And we need to think very dispassionately about the comparative advantages of small-scale and large-scale.
It seems that we're doing a comparative evaluation.
So, if you think of Roman comparative advantage part of it was the breast shields, the breastplates, but part of it was drinking the right water.
Anyone want to run a comparative effectiveness study on prayer against something?
I captured this live from my laptop in a cafe called Earth Matters on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where I live, and it was done as a collaborative project with the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art for an exhibit on comparative cosmology.
I've seen some wonderful work done on a comparative shoestring ("Soldier and Saints" is a recent example).
Akras family originally came from Jaffa, but now live crammed into a refugee camp only 4 miles from where the Levys live in comparative luxury.Any sympathy I would have had for the obviously well to do Mrs.
This comparative epic, at 1hr 53 minutes, is another fine romantic drama in which we must deal with tragedy as well as celebrate the beauty and joy in life.
Now,huddled up against the cold and fearful of being mugged by a Hoodie,they scuttle home as fast as their arthritic knees can carry them from the Video Shop,relatively happy in the certain knowledge that within the triple - locked comparative safety of their fourth - floor tower block flat they can regain just a small fragment of their lost youth and perhaps reflect that love truly is eternal.
Everyone is entitled to compare films they choose, but the similarities of "The Mortal Storm" and "Watch On The Rhine" are clearly the problems of refugees threatened by the Nazi juggernaut, while the main comparative point brought out with "Casablanca" is the seeming unjust treatment of Humphrey Bogart in 1943 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, because they chose Paul Lukas instead for the Best Actor Oscar.
The only reason to watch this film is for comparative purposes - if it's anywhere near The Killing Edge, it isn't worth the time you'll take to watch it.
Wilson goes for comparative subtlety.
"Meteor"'s only virtue is in it's comparative brevity - hardly,you might think - sufficient to warrant a viewing.And you'd be right.
Global integration brought tremendous benefits: the international division of labor, which are so clearly proved by the theory of comparative advantage; dynamic benefits such as economies of scale and the rapid spread of innovations from one country to another, which are less easy to demonstrate by static equilibrium theory; and noneconomic benefits such as the freedom of choice associated with the international movement of goods, capital, and people, and the freedom of thought associated with the international movement of ideas.
In my book New Structural Economics, I propose shifting the focus to areas where developing countries can do well (their comparative advantages) based on what they have (their endowments).
In our globalized world, a country’s optimal industrial structure – in which all industries are consistent with the country’s comparative advantages and are competitive in domestic and international markets – is determined by its endowment structure.
A well-functioning market is required to provide incentives to domestic firms to align their investment choices with the country’s comparative advantages.
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